Vice President Data Architecture Senior Analyst

Our client operates in the Financial sector, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 160 countries, providing employment to more than 200k people all over the world. They fall in the Top 15 largest Banks in the United States. Its core business is to provide various Banking and Financial services to its clients. It is known to have one of the biggest balance sheet banks in the world (among others) aiding it to offer 360-degree financial services to its clients.

Responsibilities:

• Designs/analyzes complex reports to satisfy management requirements.
• Deals with complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact.
• Uses broad discretion in developing solutions for broad based business reporting issues.
• Leads reengineering efforts in business's methodology, strategy, and organizational goals.
• Manages resource allocation and leads the work within a team/project to develop solutions for business reporting issues.
• Applies/demonstrates advanced understanding of processes, procedures, and policies for area supported. 
• Possesses a comprehensive understanding of how own area and others collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level personnel in the business processes and procedures of area supported.
• Provides in-depth and sophisticated analysis with interpretive thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Influences strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services that have direct impact on the business.
• Persuades and influences others through developed communication and diplomacy skills with colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers.
• May be responsible for resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.
• Requires basic commercial awareness.
• Develops communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers.
• Deals with complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting needs.
• Exercises wide degree of latitude and discretion.
• Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business.
• Handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.
• Responsible for handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.
• Gathers and synthesizes existing data governance principles, policies, practices and standards, e.g. 
• understanding industry best practices.
• Produces recommendations for enterprise-wide guiding principles, policies, processes and practices.
• Determines requirements for and prioritize development of new enterprise-wide principles, policies, processes and practices as needed.
• Develops and manages approach for measuring adoption of principles, policies, processes and practices.
• Manages relationship with key business leaders and influential subject matter experts within specific lines of business to drive efforts to measurable successful conclusion.
• Prepares executive/management level reporting and other regulator-required updates.
• Acts as a change agent and collaborator, partnering with LOBs, Global Functions, and CDO team to establish enterprise wide data governance programs.
• Processes mapping, modeling, and line of business policies and practices.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.

Requirements:

• 6-10 years relevant experience
• Demonstrated Data Analyst skillset
• Advanced understanding of Project management methodologies and tools
• Senior level experience in a related role.
• Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex material from multiple sources. 
• Subject matter expert in at least one related area.
• Ability to monitor tight deadlines or unexpected requirement changes

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding , its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.